At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water, at the time of great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.

O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life; may years of life be restored to me. Restore my health and preserve my life.’

“I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.

I solemnly make this oath – what I say is true and reliable: ‘Surely every knee will bow to me, every tongue will solemnly affirm;

No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.

You plant them like trees and they put down their roots. They grow prosperous and are very fruitful. They always talk about you, but they really care nothing about you.

Those prophets are just prophesying lies. They are prophesying the delusions of their own minds.

When they had heard it all, they expressed their alarm to one another. Then they said to Baruch, “We must certainly give the king a report about everything you have read!”

This day I have told you what he said. But you do not want to obey the Lord by doing what he sent me to tell you.

I will send people to winnow Babylonia like a wind blowing away chaff. They will winnow her and strip her land bare. This will happen when they come against her from every direction, when it is time to destroy her.

Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

While I listened, he said to the others, “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare anyone!

This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not be meat within it; I will judge you at the border of Israel.

Its boughs were strong, fit for rulers’ scepters; it reached up into the clouds. It stood out because of its height and its many branches.

Set the empty pot on the coals, until it becomes hot and its copper glows, until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot is consumed.

they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth, and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning.

I will exalt and magnify myself; I will reveal myself before many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

At the beginning of the wall of the court toward the south, facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers

It came to the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed against it with raging strength.